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Disc 2 contains Karate Bearfighter (1975), with a brand new audio commentary by Mike Leeder & Arne Venema and the original theatrical trailer. Ōyama is expelled from the karate community for refusing to pull his punches. With nowhere else to turn, he takes a job with the yakuza after running into Kimura (Hideo Murota), whom he knew as a fellow member of the Imperial Japanese Air Service before Kimura turned to a life of crime. Ultimately, though, Ōyama has no more respect for his superiors on the streets than he did in the dojo.

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Disc 1 contains Karate Bullfighter (1975), with a brand new audio commentary by Mike Leeder & Arne Venema, the video essay "In Search of the Ultimate Truth" by Jonathan Clements, the alternate "Champion of Death" opening credits, the original theatrical trailer and a "Champion of Death" TV spot. A karate tournament is crashed by an enigmatic martial artist calling himself Ōyama (Chiba), who arrives in tattered rags and beats all who dare challenge him. But Ōyama's entrance into the world of karate has unforeseen consequences, and soon he is fighting for far more than sporting victory.

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Disc 1 contains The Defensive Power of Aikido (1975) and 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats (1975). The Defensive Power of Aikido: The story of Morihei Ueshiba, born to a farming family in Wakayama, and his pursuit of the heart of martial arts until he finally created his own well-polished Aikido. 13 Steps of Maki: Maki, the leader of a female gang that fights for justice, is captured and sent to a sadistic women's prison.

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Kinji Fukasaku's box-office hit brings together Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba and Etsuko Shihomi in a fantasy-tinged historical epic. The Satomi clan has been all but wiped out by its enemies, the ghoulish, undead Hikita clan, and Princess Shizu — the family's last survivor — flees into hiding to escape their fate. On her own, she crosses paths with Shinbei, a farmer turned soldier, and then with a pair of warrior monks who prove to be two of the eight legendary Hakkenden, the 'dog warriors' able to lift the curse hanging over her family. Together they must track down the remaining warriors and confront Tamazusa, the Hikita clan's evil leader.

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On his adoptive father's deathbed, Texas-raised rancher Joji learns he has a twin brother and a sister he never knew. He travels to Japan to find his brother, only to learn he has been mysteriously killed; staying with his sister, Joji uncovers his uncle's criminal enterprises and his scheme to obtain a priceless 130-carat diamond, the Queen of Sheba, and fights to avenge his family.

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In Japan's Warring States period, Takamaru Momochi, heir to the Iga clan, sails home after ten years in hiding in China, determined to find Shiranui, the ruthless ninja who betrayed and murdered his father. But Shiranui and his thugs now control the country, so Takamaru gathers the scattered remnants of his clan and trains them in the shadowy art of ninjutsu, building a guerrilla resistance that can defeat the corrupt ninja and restore the Iga clan's honor.